In his essay “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor,” biologist Garrett Hardin warns that well meant humanitarian efforts to save the poor will in the long run destroy the future of our country. He compares affluent nations to a lifeboat with limited capacity, and poor nations to the people drowning outside the lifeboat, waiting to be rescued. ... ” He adds that implementing a world food bank will allow the poor nations to multiply, at exponential rates. ... Hardin argues that overpopulation growth would be kept in line naturally if we did not give out handouts to the poor. He advises, “if poor countries received no food from the outside, the rate of their population growth would be periodically checked by crop failures and famines.
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